Multnomah-Columbia County OR Archives Biographies.....Cliff, M. D. , Harry R. December 8, 1860 - 
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     HARRY R. CLIFF, M. D.  For forty-four years Dr. Harry R. Cliff has been 
engaged in the practice of medicine in Oregon, and for twenty years of this 
period has been numbered among the able and successful physicians of Portland, 
where, since 1920, he has been serving as county physician. Born in England on 
the 8th of December, 1860, he is a son of Joseph Spence and Ann (Foster) 
Cliff, both of whom are deceased. After completing the course of the public 
schools and university, Harry R. Cliff entered Bartholomew’s Medical College, 
in London, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine 
in 1880. He served in the British navy for two years, being assigned to the 
Australian station, and in 1884 came to Oregon, locating at St. Helen's 
Columbia county, where he entered upon the private practice of his profession. 
He was successful and remained there twenty-four years, or until 1908, when he 
came to Portland, where he has been engaged in practice to the present time. 
His position as county physician and director of Multnomah Hospital has been 
filled by him in a very satisfactory manner, and he is regarded as one of this 
city's most dependable and capable physicians.

     In 1881 Dr. Cliff was united in marriage to Miss Clara Australia Evans, 
who was born and reared in Sydney, Australia, and to them have been born two 
children. Hilda is the wife of Harry Divilviss, of Portland, and they have a 
daughter, Peggy Jane, aged seven years. Kenneth Harry, of Portland, is married 
and has a son, Kenneth Harry, Jr., now ten years of age. Kenneth H. Cliff is a 
veteran of the World war, having served overseas with the Ninety-first 
Division, in which he was made a sergeant in the medical corps. Dr. Cliff 
gives his political support to the republican party and has maintained a deep 
interest in public affairs. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted 
Masons, in which he has attained the degree of a Knight Templar; the Nobles of 
the Mystic Shrine, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of 
Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He belongs to the 
University Club and has been a member of the Oregon State Medical Society 
since June, 1888. He has been greatly interested in everything relating to his 
profession, has kept in close touch with the latest advances in the science of 
medicine and commands the respect of his colleagues and the confidence of the 
public, while he is held in grateful regard by countless persons who have been 
benefited by his skill and ability.


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History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
644

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